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53
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TO the President of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference:
The Executive Committee of the Conference has met six times during the
year. The following officers and committees have been appointed:
Secretary: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Conference publicity director: Rev. Thomas Wersell.
Associate editor of the Advance: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Investment committee: Dr. Emil Swenson, Mr. Christopher Hoff, and Mr. Clif­ford
E. Bostrom.
Conference historian: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Committee on co-ownership of Gustavus Adolphus College: Dr. Emil Swen­son,
Dr. Leonard Kendall, Dr. Emeroy Johnson, Mr. Christopher Hoff, Mr. W. E.
Hanson, and Dr. Edgar Carlson.
The Committee on co-ownership of Gustavus Adolphus College has met with
a committee from the Red River Valley Conference, to discuss details of a plan
whereby the Red River Valley Conference would enter into a full partnership
with the Minnesota Conference in the ownership, operation, and control of our
College. The proposal which is being presented to both conferences is as follows:
PROPOSAL
For Joint Ownership and Control of
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
By the Minnesota Conference and the Red River Valley Conference
Christian Education is a prime duty of the church, in obedience to the com­mission
of the Lord Jesus Christ, " ... teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you" (Matthew 28: 20). This duty extends beyond the capacity of
the parish and the home, especially in the realm of higher education. The church
must maintain Christian colleges, in order to train men and women for conse­crated
service to church and society, and to develop Christian personality and
Christian culture.
In recognition of this fundamental fact that Christian higher education is a
part of the responsibility entrusted to us by our Lord and Saviour;
in recognition of our obvious duty to provide as adequately as possible fo
the training of our own children;
in recognition of the fact that we have a Christian duty also to others who
may desire to come to our church schools;
and whereas it will be to the mutual advantage of our two conferences;
Therefore Be It Resolved, that
1. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, shall be owned, con­trolled,
and operated jointly by the Lutheran Minnesota Conference and the Red
River Valley Conference of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, effective
upon adoption of this agreement by the two conferences respectively, and the ap­proval
and ratification of the constitution of the College by the Red River Valley
Conference, together with adoption of such amendments to the constitution of the
College and of the respective conferences and the Articles of Incorporation of
the College as may be found necessary to make this agreement valid.
2. The present bonded indebtedness of Gustavus Adolphus College shall not, .

53
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TO the President of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference:
The Executive Committee of the Conference has met six times during the
year. The following officers and committees have been appointed:
Secretary: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Conference publicity director: Rev. Thomas Wersell.
Associate editor of the Advance: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Investment committee: Dr. Emil Swenson, Mr. Christopher Hoff, and Mr. Clif­ford
E. Bostrom.
Conference historian: Dr. Emeroy Johnson.
Committee on co-ownership of Gustavus Adolphus College: Dr. Emil Swen­son,
Dr. Leonard Kendall, Dr. Emeroy Johnson, Mr. Christopher Hoff, Mr. W. E.
Hanson, and Dr. Edgar Carlson.
The Committee on co-ownership of Gustavus Adolphus College has met with
a committee from the Red River Valley Conference, to discuss details of a plan
whereby the Red River Valley Conference would enter into a full partnership
with the Minnesota Conference in the ownership, operation, and control of our
College. The proposal which is being presented to both conferences is as follows:
PROPOSAL
For Joint Ownership and Control of
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
By the Minnesota Conference and the Red River Valley Conference
Christian Education is a prime duty of the church, in obedience to the com­mission
of the Lord Jesus Christ, " ... teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you" (Matthew 28: 20). This duty extends beyond the capacity of
the parish and the home, especially in the realm of higher education. The church
must maintain Christian colleges, in order to train men and women for conse­crated
service to church and society, and to develop Christian personality and
Christian culture.
In recognition of this fundamental fact that Christian higher education is a
part of the responsibility entrusted to us by our Lord and Saviour;
in recognition of our obvious duty to provide as adequately as possible fo
the training of our own children;
in recognition of the fact that we have a Christian duty also to others who
may desire to come to our church schools;
and whereas it will be to the mutual advantage of our two conferences;
Therefore Be It Resolved, that
1. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, shall be owned, con­trolled,
and operated jointly by the Lutheran Minnesota Conference and the Red
River Valley Conference of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, effective
upon adoption of this agreement by the two conferences respectively, and the ap­proval
and ratification of the constitution of the College by the Red River Valley
Conference, together with adoption of such amendments to the constitution of the
College and of the respective conferences and the Articles of Incorporation of
the College as may be found necessary to make this agreement valid.
2. The present bonded indebtedness of Gustavus Adolphus College shall not, .